skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, the problem is that the debtor states are often unable to repay the debt, at least not without taking money away from areas like public health and education.

The loans are often quite old. Presumably the original lenders often decide that the loans are never going to be repayed, and the debtor states budget on that assumption. Years later they find themselves pursued for debts they believed were lapsed.
Sure, R is a tool for implementing statistics. You could use Excel, pad and paper, SAS or Matlab. But the principles are the most important.
In my personal experience, resisting the urge/pressure to get into management (vs. staying in engineering). Management in a larger setup invariably involves having political skills of some sort.
MIT Scheme, T3, vi, Gambit-C, postfix, openssh, postgresql, redis, GNU Emacs, clisp
this is true, although even when gzipped svgs are typically about double the size of ttfs

re browsers, yea none of them passed 100% of the tests, but admittedly that chart is about 10 months old
APL, J and K/Kona all get it "right" - their default floating point comparison is a "tolerant comparison", basically meaning that floating point numbers compare equal even if they are slightly apart (a few ulps, configurable). It does not extend to hashing (because tolerant equality does not actually have equivalence classes), but is nevertheless an extremely useful behaviour.
This little chip could be a significant boon to signal and image processing. A number of those applications, particularly surveillance radar, sesimic/hydrographic survey, and sensor fusion[1], have signficant data parallelism. Many have multiple independent data streams that must be processed and integrated in real time. With the proper algorithms, an architecture like this is much more efficient than a general-purpose multi-core or multi-machine system.

One of the key limits to these sensors is the data pipe between the various pieces that run the signal processing. This is especially true when one of the hops is over a relatively slow link, such as with an ROV/UAV. The size and weight of this chip would allow more of the signal processing to be embedded on the platform or in the sensor, thus reducing the volume of data passed over the slow link and allowing more information to be sent.

It does, of course, require a different programming paradigm to use effectively. Special applications like I have mentioned are worth the extra effort and reduced portability and so will see value in this device. No doubt some other applications mentioned so far (crypto, finance, etc) will also see value in it as well.

[1] I have a strong background in and knowledge of military sensors, and signficant exposure to seismic and hydrographic survey in the oil and gas industry.
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Yes, we used a ton of stats to inform product decisions, measure the health of the auction and inform our sales team (prioritize leads).
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My aversion to movie theaters isn't the cost - but the other patrons. Whether it's talking during the movie, or someone texting on their phone illuminating their row with its screen, or somebody 10 rows up that's left their blinking bluetooth earpiece on their ear - movie theaters are annoying places to try to enjoy a movie.

The alternative is to wait a few months and watch it in the comfort of your home, at a fraction of the cost, in an environment that's likely to be good-enough from an audio/video standpoint. You've also got your own food, and the option to pause the movie. Aside from some movies where the visual effects may merit going to a theatre, it's becoming increasingly less desirable for me to do so.
That is true. Amazon has been in cloud hosting space for a long time to cover almost all areas required to run a server. I am rooting for competitors though who could offer more services. That should bring interesting services and drive down cost even further.
I predict this post will receive between 2-6 votes and never see the front page, but for what it's worth: this is the most important thing happening in Internet security this year.

One of the biggest problems we have in security right now is that nobody knows how many SSL CA's there are. The SSL PKI has failed. Browser vendors allowed top-level CAs to delegate, often for money, their signing authority to third-parties. Those third parties have in turn done predictably horrible things with that privilege. One of them sold a CA=YES certificate to a Fortune 500 company to help them monitor their employees (and also the whole Internet). Several others were hacked.

The problem with untrustworthy CAs is that the browser depends on CA trust to "break ties" between competing certificate assertions; is this Bank of America certificate BofA, or is it a European organized crime group? The only signal the browser has is which CA the signature on the cert rolls up to.

Google ameliorated that problem for its own properties using "certificate pinning". Pinning simply means that Google knows what their legit certificates are, and ships a browser, and sure as shit isn't going to let its browser trust some dinky delegated CA's certificate for GMail over the certificate it knows it owns. It sure would be nice if everyone could pin their certificates into browsers instead of just Google and the giant sites Google pins.

TACK allows that to happen. TACK is a small cryptosystem that accomplishes for certificate pins what HSTS (a widely supported browser security standard) does for defeating SSL stripping: it provides a way for browsers to see a legit SSL/TLS certificate and then remember that certificate going forward, so even if Iranian hackers (or the NSA) manage to cut a valid-looking CA-signed certificate for that site later on, it won't matter because your browser will only honor the cert it first saw. The technique, which is called "key continuity" and forms the entire security model for SSH, relies on the fact that the overwhelming majority of first-contact hits to sites will get their legitimate key; if you're an attacker with an evil certificate, your odds of intercepting a first-touch connection from a browser to BofA is very low.

You very much want TACK to get as much attention as it can. Trevor Perrin and Moxie Marlinspike are extraordinarily competent and well-regarded crypto protocol people and TACK is both simple and well- thought- out. TACK takes some of the control maintained by browser vendors back and returns it to site operators. This kind of decentralization is badly needed. Read the TACK draft, please.
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I have to admit, I don't mind tests, though they always make me nervous. I can, have, and do build quite good sized web apps from the ground up, but proving myself in programmer tests makes me want to jump out of my skin.

But, I like my IDEs. I did the demo test, and ended up glancing back at VS to get the darned using statement I needed. I can't say I like the thought of being tested against remembering all the namespaces.

That being said, I may do a few more practice runs on that site.
thank you for your comment, and the link, really interesting points!
Agreed. It's the same for any branch of knowledge. You can use it well or use it poorly.
Current landscape in the industry provides an out for this. Its become easy to blog, contribute code socially, or simply run your own startup on the side, while you slog in your mundane day-job. All this empowerment will only make you hate your employment all the more... so either you will quit or become apathetic.
Hinton's team (SuperVision) uses an interesting 'dropout' technique. He gave a Google Tech Talk on this back in June.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DleXA5ADG78&feature=plcp

And an older talk that covers some of what a deep convolutional net is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIURAu1-aU
Us techies like to laugh about how the idiots in tech support always ask us to do stupid things like "Turn it off and on again".

But honestly, do you know the level of computer knowledge of 90% of callers to the tech support line of residental ISPs? Requests like "is it plugged in?" or "turn it off and on again" do help lots of people who don't know about these things.

What's worse is often people think they know about computers (and actually don't), and then ring up tech support. This is why "I know computers, I know it's not that" will never work with tech support. For every person who says that & knows computers, there's people who say it and think that (say) the IP address 192.168.1.2 must be on the 2nd port on their router (because the .2 means second port, see?).

Just accept that you have to go through the motions.
These drugs have been legally sold and manufactured in many countries. The use of the word "illegal" to describe them is hysterical and inappropriate. If the FDA wishes to regulate pharmaceuticals that enter the United States, that's fine; but the FDA's jurisdiction should stop at its borders. It looks to me like this crack-down had little to do with health and safety but a lot to do with protecting entrenched distributors.
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Its nice to know the grass is greener on my side of the fence..
I think you both need to remember that you probably have different sets of grandparents living in different circumstances.
It's an immensely capable tool, but it gives no guidance regarding the right way to do things.

There is no right way. Think about styling. Is there a right style? No. It is silly to argue over your code's appearance. HOWEVER! As soon as you start collaborating with people and reviewing code, a uniform style is a very nice thing to have.

Teamwork creates the need for shared conventions. And that's where your ability to convince your team members of the value of some standardizations comes into play.

different projects on my company use different practices...

It sounds like your problem is not Git, but lack of organization. I am not sure a more restrictive scm would fix that. You need to find a good way to use Git, and then sell everyone on the benefits of process uniformity.
Perhaps because their targets (marks) do not know what a Mac is, and opening with "Do you have a Mac or Windows?" will confuse people.
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Regardless of the numbers involved, the product has really started to mature recently. We've been on the nReduce programme with them, and Clay has done some great stuff with Thetaboard. The Bootstrap Tour described in the blog post works well with the product.
As Thetaboard starts to get a little more attention, I'm sure the numbers will become statistically significant.
edw519 is right - software as a field offers tremendous opportunities to create a positive impact on society. If you're not doing that, consider getting another job (it's not as if it's hard right now).

I've been in-industry for 3 years, and in that short time I have written software that:

- substantially reduced plastics, paper, and metal usage in packaging for the largest e-tailer on the planet.

- decreased fuel usage for shipments coming from said e-tailer.

- made air travel better by letting travelers know about delays, cancellations, and last-minute changes before the airlines even know about them. I even help them pick better seats on their flights.

- help people go on more fulfilling, more interesting dates.

I look forward to doing a hell of a lot more than that.

If you don't feel like your work matters, and you don't feel like you have impact on the world, do something else. Software is wonderful in that way.
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Those were social problems solved by activists. Sorry if this doesn't jive with your techno triumphalism, but the technology makers were the ones who brought us child labor, crappy mass processed food, and smog. Since you mentioned segregation, you might want to read the MLK speech you haven't heard about, Beyond Vietnam : http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documen.... "When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered." Unfortunately, the people who give a damn and are pointing out the problems wtih say, government surveliance, are being drowned out by people like you. So I'm not optimistic.
I know posting funny youtube videos is frowned upon here, but this is just sooo relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uklF7VtqJq8
Just to add sense for newcomers, the original title of the thread was "Neural Networks officially best at object recognition" and most of the posts in here debated that the title was not appropriate for the link.
> "The biggest issue I see is the risk of extra-market activity"

Demetri from Get Maid here...

This is something that has traditionally been a problem in the maid sector. It's not perfect, but we take several steps to minimize this. On the customer side, we provide things that individual maids can't, such as on-demand booking and cashless payments. All of our maids are also bonded and insured so if something breaks by accident, you’re covered; individual maids rarely are. On the maid side, we give maids an opportunity to fill their idle time by getting them bookings on days/time that they are not very busy and/or are close to their current location. In addition, we pay an above-average rate (which also helps us recruit quality maids).
All countries—especially small and/or underdeveloped countries—need foreign trade in order to develop their economies, and it’s really really hard to engage in foreign trade without credit. And “if you stiff your current borrowers it may be harder to borrow in the future” is a risk that civilians have right now; creating a sovereign bankruptcy code won’t change that.

I forgot to mention that such a code would actually help borrowers, in the following way: For countries in a debt crisis, the lenders holding 90% of the debt may realize that they aren’t going to get paid back in full, and therefore would agree to a settlement where at least they get something back. But the ones holding the remaining 10% can pound the table and say “no, we want payment in full, and we’re legally entitled to it”... which leads the 90% bloc to say “well, if they’re still entitled to payment in full, we’re not going to be suckers and settle for less”... which leads the indebted country to say “we can’t possibly pay you all in full, so screw you all, we’re defaulting”.
As a relative newbie to git,

Why do I get prompted to enter a commit message when I'm just doing a git pull?

Why do I have to explicitly add every file I want to commit each time? Why can't it just default to "everything under the current dir" like svn does?
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Template::Extract appears closer.

https://metacpan.org/module/Template::Extract

Here's something equivalent to the example in the OP:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use Template::Extract;
use Data::Printer;

sub extractValues {
my ($document, $template, $opts) = @_;

my $delims = $opts->{delimiters} || [ qw/ { } / ];
$document = lc $document
if $opts->{lowercase};
if (exists $opts->{whitespace}) {
my $ws = ' ' x $opts->{whitespace};
$document =~ s/\s+/$ws/g;
}
Template::Extract->new( { START_TAG => $delims->[0], END_TAG => $delims->[1] } )
->extract( $template, $document );
}

p extractValues('/2012/08/12/test.html', '/{year}/{month}/{day}/{title}.html');

p extractValues('John Doe <john@example.com> (http://example.com)', '{name} <{email}> ({url})');

p extractValues('from 4th October to 10th October',
'from `from` to `to`',
{ whitespace => 1, delimiters => ['`', '`'] });

Output:

\ {
day 12,
month 08,
title "test",
year 2012
}
\ {
email "john@example.com",
name "John Doe",
url "http://example.com"
}
\ {
from "4th October",
to "10th October"
}
Fifty? Pfft, sure! I'm almost there, and yes, I want to continue… Now Sixty… I'll confess that my evil "plan" from many moons ago was to—by then—be able to balance this with my other loves, being outside and moving (not just my fingers). I suppose many professions suffer from the same disadvantage, but programming is a slow killer. Eyes, joints, all that clot-inducing sitting, disrupted cicardian-rhythms, too easy to get trapped in bubbles disconnected from reality, you need to be extra-vigilant and pro-active if you care at all about your health and those that love or at least put up with you.
OK, I didn't remember storage being that bad. Also, reserved instances are billed per-year, so my per-hour comparison stands.
Here's the non-mobile link -> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/the-fo...
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You are correct :)

I cannot writing my own read!
Those approaches are increasingly well-studied and a lot of them (Grover's algorithm, anyone?) look an awful lot like magic.

(For people who don't want to look that up, Grover's algorithm does searches on unsorted databases in root-n time, that is, in fewer operations than would be required to inspect every element of the database.)
svn always seemed limited to me if your dev team grows beyond the capability of utilizing simple verbal communication to mitigate problems when merging.
Check out the Nabi 2 pad. Just bought one for my 5 year old and it's really nice. It's android based and made for kids and a lot cheaper than an iPad, it was roughly $200.
Both sides definitely exaggerated / misled, but in my opinion Romney's were bigger exaggerations or more blatant lies. Granted I prefer Obama, but wish debates would have live fact checking or candidates would be called out for these so that truthfulness actually plays a large role in determining who won the debate.
create a file, ctrl-to-esc.ahk:

Ctrl::
Send {esc}
Return

Then run the script and AutoHotkey will sit in the background, waiting to substitute a lone ctrl for an escape-key-press.

I haven't figured out the shift-parens yet, unfortunately.
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Would it be overly conspiratorial to suggest that the CIA and NSA are in fact interested in a large-scale implementation of Shor's algorithm? Perhaps I underestimate how much use intelligence agencies have for optimization...
There are two major things I really gain out of rebasing frequently.

Firstly and most importantly, Thanks to rebase I'm constantly working against the most recent mainline, merge pains are reduced by frequently dealing with smaller rebase merges instead of trying to do one massive merge at the end when I'm finished with a longer life task that might last a week or two. The more often you merge the less painful it is.

Secondly there's the cleaning part of history involving squashing. I believe the issue with your viewing the merge history of the main line will miss out on changes that were able to be introduced fastforward without a merge. And frankly no one else on the team cares that I committed 6 times in the process of one task, they want to see all the code relevant to that task, and ideally it's all in one change set.

There's a pretty reasonable summary over here http://blog.sourcetreeapp.com/2012/08/21/merge-or-rebase/

For certain teams rebase just makes a lot of sense.
At Linux kernel, they just write code, test and send patches.)
As someone who is colorblind, a lot of my design is based on the logic behind colors rather than looks. Of course, I always let an actual designer approve, tinker with, or redo my work. There are a lot of inaccuracies in this piece but I like the gist of it.
No problem, glad to be of help.

Most of them are from Spanish origin, "familias patricias" - "patrician families" that were here and were somewhat powerful at the time when we were still a colony, our independence in 1816 or in the following decades, during the War of the Triple Alliance [1], and later at the Conquest of the Desert[2].

However, during the last two decades, there's being a new wave of landowners, mostly from USA, Italy, Chile, England, Israel, etc.

Benetton and Douglas Tompkins are two cases of foreigners buying LARGE amounts of land.
It has become a big problem, because they bought lots of strategic locations (periglacial lands, river sources, estuaries, etc), and then blocked access to water and other resources to people downriver, turning those lands sterile, and then buying them at vile prices.

This was so severe, that a new law was made on February 2012 [3], limiting the amount of land owned by foreign people/companies to 15% of the country.

You can see the amount of land owned by foreigners in this picture (spanish annotations, sorry):
http://hosting11.imagecross.com/image-hosting-46/1669TIERRAg...

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[1] A war between Paraguay vs an alliance of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay that resulted in the death of 90% of the Paraguayan people at the time. Very Sad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War

[2] Our equivalent to the Wild West Conquest, when Patagonia was finally dominated. That's where your image of the Argentine "Gauchos" comes from ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Desert

[3] Spanish, use translator: http://www.prensa.argentina.ar/2012/02/29/28494-se-reglament...
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What exactly would make you feel bad about doing it? It's a very interesting thing to think about btw.
Not identical, but appears to be similar: templatemaker (https://code.google.com/p/templatemaker/)
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There are an awful lot of maintainers for smaller individual pieces/subsytems of the kernel. Take a look at the MAINTAINERS file to see who is responsible for the smaller chunks:

grep -B1 ^M: /usr/src/linux-kernel/MAINTAINERS
I would be worried if they weren't interested in Shor's algorithm. That's something that fits their mandate at least.
Don't open source it without the employer's OK or disclaimer-of-copyright-interest. You don't want to be sued for disclosing trade secrets (which, if they claim the application, could very well be what they consider it). While they would have a tough time reining it in, that doesn't mean they won't take it out on you.
i'm curious why you dismiss it on this. won't the minimum in the "natural universe" be ~2.7K (the background temperature)? while they seem to be a few thousandths of a K from zero, if i understand the text right.

your post was pretty strong / dismissive, so i'm wondering what your (presumably powerful) argument is. what other systems in the universe are "naturally" in a quantum ground state?
I think that for people with an svn background there are three different issues that all hit at once:

* distributed rather than centralised version control brings a new set of concepts to understand

* git is flexible enough to support many different workflows. This means you have to actually choose one, and choice is difficult especially when you're just trying to get to grips with a new tool. svn has much more of a "one standard way to do it" approach

* git's UI is in places confusing, inconsistent and occasionally just randomly and unnecessarily different from most other version control systems

The first two are 'essential complexity'; the third is more 'accidental complexity'. In any case I feel it's having to deal with all three sources of confusion that makes the svn->git transition tricky for many people.
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Hi, I made this in my free time because there wasn't really anything that let me delegate tweeting access without all the other junk to people. I envisioned it as something quick and handy for accepting submissions, etc.
Grover's algorithm does indeed look rather like magic, but even better is the geometrical proof - WP's description looks good at a quick skim. In my (fairly limited) experience, this sort of geometrical thinking is the best way to understand quantum algorithms intuitively.
It is _tremendously_ inspiring to see that you can find such joy in things which are so very important (all of the things you listed) but which so many people would consider boring. It helps me put my own work in a better persoective. Thank you for sharing your insight and experience.